From "The Gift"

"He wanted to tell her that her pale yellow dress with bluish tulips was beautiful, that the parting of her frizzled hair and the quivering bags of her cheeks endowed her with a George-Sandesque regality; that her dining-room was the height of perfection; but he limited himself to a beaming smile and nearly tripped over the tiger stripes which had not kept up with the cat as it jumped aside;"